How Much Of Human Life Is Lost In Waiting?

(It seems like I've waited for a long time though I've just begun.)

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


For the time wasted waiting is not measured by the time spent waiting.

- Ghostwise.

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All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

- Woodrow T. Wilson


Depends on whether he is waiting for a sunset, a rainbow or a shooting star streaking over an endless night.

- Ghostwise.

Sunset On A Long Boat.

(You can watch a sunset from a hill, from the plain or from the shore and the sensations are all different. But my favorite view of the setting sun is while adrift on a boat with nothing between me and the sinking sun. I had that opportunity again two days ago just after a timely rain cleared the air for the sun to display its full brilliance.)

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon

Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape;

Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest

Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

Drifting on a long boat as the sky and sea burns, you do not witness a sunset, you are part of it.

- Ghostwise

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After a day of cloud and wind and rain

Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,

And touching all the darksome woods with light,

Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing,

Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring,

Drops down into the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hanging of the Crane

On the day you witness a setting sun, the night always appear a little kinder.

- Ghostwise

An Island Of My Own Within Walls.

(Thanks to Island Girl for inspiring the theme)

She carries in the dishes,

And lays them in a row.

To an isle in the water

With her would I go.

- William Butler Yeats

Some dreams made in the daylight,
Are as sweet as those in the night.

- Ghostwise

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An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

- Henry David Thoreau



An island of my own,
Within the four grey walls that confines me.


- Ghostwise

Sleep

Some praise the Lord for Light,

The living spark;

I thank God for the Night

The healing dark.

- Robert William Service, "Weary", first lines


Those that can’t embrace the dark will curse the light.

- Ghostwise

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Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.

- Marlene Dietrich, 1962

"I don’t like to sleep alone. No one does. Do you?"

- Ghostwise